| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. In This Issue A Role for APETALA2 in Maintenance of the Stem Cell Niche Nancy A. Eckardt Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 275–277. doi: 10.1105/tpc.106.040972.PMCID: PMC1356537 Current Perspective Essay Rice GIBBERELLIN INSENSITIVE DWARF1 Is a Gibberellin Receptor That Illuminates and Raises Questions about GA Signaling Lynn M. Hartweck and Neil E. Olszewski Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 278–282. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.039958.PMCID: PMC1356538 Research Articles Caught Red-Handed: Rc Encodes a Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Protein Conditioning Red Pericarp in Rice Megan T. Sweeney, Michael J. Thomson, Bernard E. Pfeil, and Susan McCouch Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 283–294. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.038430.PMCID: PMC1356539 APETALA2 Regulates the Stem Cell Niche in the Arabidopsis Shoot Meristem Tobias Würschum, Rita Groß-Hardt, and Thomas Laux Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 295–307. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.038398.PMCID: PMC1356540 Increased Expression of MAP KINASE KINASE7 Causes Deficiency in Polar Auxin Transport and Leads to Plant Architectural Abnormality in Arabidopsis Ya Dai, Huanzhong Wang, Baohua Li, Juan Huang, Xinfang Liu, Yihua Zhou, Zhonglin Mou, and Jiayang Li Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 308–320. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.037846.PMCID: PMC1356541 The Epidermis-Specific Extracellular BODYGUARD Controls Cuticle Development and Morphogenesis in Arabidopsis Sergey Kurdyukov, Andrea Faust, Christiane Nawrath, Sascha Bär, Derry Voisin, Nadia Efremova, Rochus Franke, Lukas Schreiber, Heinz Saedler, Jean-Pierre Métraux, and Alexander Yephremov Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 321–339. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.036079.PMCID: PMC1356542 A Rice Glutamate Receptor–Like Gene Is Critical for the Division and Survival of Individual Cells in the Root Apical Meristem Jing Li, Shihua Zhu, Xinwei Song, Yi Shen, Hanming Chen, Jie Yu, Keke Yi, Yanfen Liu, Valerie J. Karplus, Ping Wu, and Xing Wang Deng Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 340–349. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.037713.PMCID: PMC1356543 Arabidopsis Ribonucleotide Reductases Are Critical for Cell Cycle Progression, DNA Damage Repair, and Plant Development Chunxin Wang and Zhongchi Liu Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 350–365. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.037044.PMCID: PMC1356544 Members of a Novel Class of Arabidopsis Rho Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors Control Rho GTPase-Dependent Polar Growth Ying Gu, Shundai Li, Elizabeth M. Lord, and Zhenbiao Yang Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 366–381. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.036434.PMCID: PMC1356545 The A-Type Cyclin CYCA2;3 Is a Key Regulator of Ploidy Levels in Arabidopsis Endoreduplication Kumiko K. Imai, Yohei Ohashi, Tomohiko Tsuge, Takeshi Yoshizumi, Minami Matsui, Atsuhiro Oka, and Takashi Aoyama Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 382–396. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.037309.PMCID: PMC1356546 Arabidopsis ACCELERATED CELL DEATH2 Modulates Programmed Cell Death Nan Yao and Jean T. Greenberg Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 397–411. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.036251.PMCID: PMC1356547 Regulation of Phosphate Homeostasis by MicroRNA in Arabidopsis Tzyy-Jen Chiou, Kyaw Aung, Shu-I Lin, Chia-Chune Wu, Su-Fen Chiang, and Chun-lin Su Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 412–421. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.038943.PMCID: PMC1356548 Involvement of a Glycerol-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase in Modulating the NADH/NAD+ Ratio Provides Evidence of a Mitochondrial Glycerol-3-Phosphate Shuttle in Arabidopsis Wenyun Shen, Yangdou Wei, Melanie Dauk, Yifang Tan, David C. Taylor, Gopalan Selvaraj, and Jitao Zou Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 422–441. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.039750.PMCID: PMC1356549 ELONGATED UPPERMOST INTERNODE Encodes a Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenase That Epoxidizes Gibberellins in a Novel Deactivation Reaction in Rice Yongyou Zhu, Takahito Nomura, Yonghan Xu, Yingying Zhang, Yu Peng, Bizeng Mao, Atsushi Hanada, Haicheng Zhou, Renxiao Wang, Peijin Li, Xudong Zhu, Lewis N. Mander, Yuji Kamiya, Shinjiro Yamaguchi, and Zuhua He Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 442–456. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.038455.PMCID: PMC1356550 Mobilization of Photosystem II Induced by Intense Red Light in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp PCC7942 Mary Sarcina, Nikolaos Bouzovitis, and Conrad W. Mullineaux Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 457–464. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.035808.PMCID: PMC1356551 The Arabidopsis Receptor Kinase FLS2 Binds flg22 and Determines the Specificity of Flagellin Perception Delphine Chinchilla, Zsuzsa Bauer, Martin Regenass, Thomas Boller, and Georg Felix Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 465–476. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.036574.PMCID: PMC1356552 Arabidopsis TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN Interacts with RAPTOR, Which Regulates the Activity of S6 Kinase in Response to Osmotic Stress Signals Magdy M. Mahfouz, Sunghan Kim, Ashton J. Delauney, and Desh Pal S. Verma Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 477–490. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.035931.PMCID: PMC1356553 Elicitor-Mediated Oligomerization of the Tobacco N Disease Resistance Protein Pere Mestre and David C. Baulcombe Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 491–501. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.037234.PMCID: PMC1356554 Host-Mediated Phosphorylation of Type III Effector AvrPto Promotes Pseudomonas Virulence and Avirulence in Tomato Jeffrey C. Anderson, Pete E. Pascuzzi, Fangming Xiao, Guido Sessa, and Gregory B. Martin Plant Cell. 2006 February; 18(2): 502–514. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.036590.PMCID: PMC1356555 |